"We believe that with this easy gateway to the world of 'Software Defined Silicon' and a path to massive parallelism, the X1000 will once more make the AmigaOS platform the best choice for truly creative and unique applications. For custom hardware control from robotics to theatrical lighting, for hobbyist creativity, for hardware hacking and for a multitude of applications we haven't even imagined yet, the X1000 is a dream platform - and therein lies another meaning of 'X', the unknown. It is you, not us, who will define the future."
I thought it was a great way to attract hobbyist developers. A quad core 2+ GHz x86 chip can do an insane amount of computation quickly and cheaply and even a mid range GPU takes that to a whole other level. I don't know how many flops you can get per MIPS on XCore, but if you are handcrafting at that level you can do things for less power than a CPU while having more flexibility than a GPU.
It never really occurred to me that people where still using the Amiga OS. From that standpoint it's much more evolutionary than revolutionary, but still cool.
PS: In my mind computer hobbyists and developer often mean just about the same thing. But, I realize developer makes people think of Software Developer not a HW dev.
"We believe that with this easy gateway to the world of 'Software Defined Silicon' and a path to massive parallelism, the X1000 will once more make the AmigaOS platform the best choice for truly creative and unique applications. For custom hardware control from robotics to theatrical lighting, for hobbyist creativity, for hardware hacking and for a multitude of applications we haven't even imagined yet, the X1000 is a dream platform - and therein lies another meaning of 'X', the unknown. It is you, not us, who will define the future."
I thought it was a great way to attract hobbyist developers. A quad core 2+ GHz x86 chip can do an insane amount of computation quickly and cheaply and even a mid range GPU takes that to a whole other level. I don't know how many flops you can get per MIPS on XCore, but if you are handcrafting at that level you can do things for less power than a CPU while having more flexibility than a GPU.
It never really occurred to me that people where still using the Amiga OS. From that standpoint it's much more evolutionary than revolutionary, but still cool.
PS: In my mind computer hobbyists and developer often mean just about the same thing. But, I realize developer makes people think of Software Developer not a HW dev.